Edwin "Editor" H. Bideau III was a lawyer, farmer, rancher, and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 9th district.
Education
Bideau was a 5th generation Kansan who graduated from Chanute High School, Neosho County Community College, and then went on to get both a business and law degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where he met and married his wife Margaret.
Career
They moved back to Chanute the day after Bideau passed the bar exam so he could serve as Assistant County Attorney for Neosho County. In 1976 he was elected County Attorney. In 1984 he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 5th district (Neosho County, Kansas).
He chaired the House Reapportionment Committee and chaired a subcommittee that produced the very first Division of Assets bill to help protect elderly couples when nursing home care is required.
He was named one of the top ten freshman legislators by Kansas Magazine his first year in office. He served in this position until his death in September 2013.